FEMALE EDUCATION AND AGE AT MARRIAGE

女性受教育程度和结婚年龄

• 批准号: 3321590
• 负责人: MARK R MONTGOMERY
• 金额: $ 8.67万
• 依托单位: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1986
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1986-09-16 至 1988-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3321590
• 关键词: Indonesia; Malaysia; age at marriage; education; female; human population study; marriage /marital status; southeast Asia; statistics /biometry; training level

The focus of the research is the marriage "market" in four countries of East and Southeast Asia: Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Korea. We investigate female education levels, female age at first marriage, and the education levels of first husbands, drawing on individual-level data from the World Fertility Surveys. Our intention is to use the economic theory of search as the organizing framework for the empirical analyses. Search theory suggests that the length of search and the characteristics of the accepted match are joint products of a marriage searcher's definition of the minimum levels of various characteristics acceptable in a spouse. In consequence, relatively little behavioral information on marriage search can be gleaned from data on search duration -- here, age at first marriage -- alone. A convincing test of the theory required that duration data be combined with data on the spouse's characteristics. We will investigate such joint models. We treat a woman's educational attainment as if it represented, in part, an investment made by her parents with potential payoffs in the marriage market. Her age at first marriage will be identified with the length of search. Finally, husband's education will be treated as the female marital search counterpart to the wage rate in labor market search models. There are both conceptual and statistical difficulties inherent in applying search theory to first marriage. Corner solutions -- determining who is and is not yet eligible for marriage -- present more obvious difficulties with respect to marriage than they do in labor market search models. Changing marital "offer" frequencies and persistent, individual-specific unobservables are important considerations in the statistical work. Finally, the restriction of the WFS surveys to ever-married women requires us to devise maximum likelihood estimators appropriate for truncated data in order to give the implications of search theory a proper test.

研究的重点是四个国家的婚姻“市场”。 东亚与东南亚：马来西亚，印度尼西亚，斯里兰卡与韩国。我们 调查女性受教育程度、女性初婚年龄以及 第一任丈夫的受教育程度，借鉴了来自 世界生育率调查。我们的意图是用经济理论 作为实证分析的组织框架。搜索 理论认为，搜索的时间长度和搜索的特征 接受匹配是婚姻搜索者定义的联合产品 配偶可接受的各种特征的最低水平。在……里面 结果，关于婚姻搜索的行为信息相对较少 可以从搜索持续时间的数据中收集--这里是第一次结婚的年龄 --独自一人。要令人信服地检验这一理论，需要持续期数据 结合配偶特征的数据。我们会调查的 这样的联合模型。我们对待女性的教育程度就好像 在一定程度上，代表了她父母的一项有潜力的投资 婚姻市场的收益。她初婚的年龄将是 以搜索的长度来标识。最后，丈夫的教育将是 被视为女性婚姻搜索对应的劳动工资率 市场搜索模型。 在应用时既有概念上的困难，也有统计上的困难 第一次婚姻的搜索理论。角落解决方案--决定谁是 而且还没有资格结婚--呈现出更明显的困难 在婚姻方面，他们比在劳动力市场搜索模型中所做的要好。 改变婚姻的“提供”频率和持久的、特定于个人的 不可观测性是统计工作中的重要考虑因素。 最后，WFS调查仅限于已婚妇女需要 美国将设计适用于截断数据的最大似然估计器 为了对搜索理论的含义进行适当的检验。